Book contents
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji
- 2 Technical Dimensions
- 3 Modelling Emoji–Text Relations
- 4 Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning
- 5 Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
- 6 Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
- 7 Dialogic Affiliation
- 8 Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds
- 9 Beyond Emoji–Text Relations
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Glossary
- Index
6 - Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- 1 Social Media Paralanguage and Emoji
- 2 Technical Dimensions
- 3 Modelling Emoji–Text Relations
- 4 Emoji Synchronising with Textual Meaning
- 5 Emoji Concurring with Ideational Meaning
- 6 Emoji Resonating with Interpersonal Meaning
- 7 Dialogic Affiliation
- 8 Communing Affiliation: The Role of Emoji in Communing around Bonds
- 9 Beyond Emoji–Text Relations
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the interpersonal function of emoji as they resonate with the linguistic attitude and negotiation of solidarity expressed in social media posts. We have introduced a system network for describing the ways in which this resonance can occur, making a distinction between emoji which imbue the co-text with interpersonal meaning (usually through attitudinally targeting particular ideation) and emoji which enmesh with the interpersonal meanings made in the co-text (usually through coordinating with linguistic attitude). We then explain the more delicate options in this resonance network where emoji can harmonise with the co-text by either echoing or coalescing interpersonal meaning, or can rebound from the co-text, either complicating, subverting or positioning interpersonal meaning. Following this traversal of the resonance network we considered two important dimensions of interpersonal meaning noted in the corpus: the role of emoji in modulating attendant interpersonal meanings in the co-text by upscaling graduation and emoji’s capacity to radiate interpersonal meaning through emblematic usage as bonding icons.
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- Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage , pp. 110 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024